ENGINEERING & BUILDING KIT INFORMATION

De Villiers & Van Schaik Marine Design can provide complete building kit information for the structure of your vessel

Building preparation, Engineering & Building KitsAt some point during or after the design is finished, the building preparation starts. A construction plan with typical details is normally included with the design information that a builder receives, however this is general building information and the builder needs to do a lot of work on the lofting floor to figure out how every structural part has to be made.These days modern and specialised software can be used to do a lot of that building preparation. Practically the vessel can be build completely in the computer and the exact dimensions of every part can be designed. Modern CAD/CAM systems using computer controlled routers, plasma, laser and even high pressure water cutters, can cut plywood, foam, aluminum and steel with an accuracy of a fraction of a millimeter. This could be done for temporary building frames or actually all the final parts to be used in the building proces. Guided with detailed assembly drawings the building kit can be assembled by the shipyard. This saves enormous amounts of time on the shopfloor. Also with these computer cut parts the shape of the vessel is very precise and it's much easier to make a fair hull. With a building kit even building your own boat as a private person is much less of a challenge.

Yard Standard & Custom Building KitsShipyards often have their own work and construction standards. These yard specific standards can perfectly be incorporated in the building kit. This way the craftsmen on the shopfloor don't get unpleasantly surprised by 'exotic' creations by the designer and the building proces will be smooth and easy. This saves of course a lot of time and money.

Building Kit, Cutting PackageA building kit or cutting package can be used for building the hull of a ship but also to prefabricate the interior! There is a lot of different materials which can be used. Just to name a few:

Steel

Aluminum

FRP

GRP

Composite Cored structures (Foamcore, woodcore)

Plywood

Solid wood

Every material has it's own requirements in processing but with every building method a building kit of some sort can be usefull. With composite and plywood boatbuilding many times building frames are used, espacially with 'one-offs' or custombuilds. These can easily be made from MDF (medium density fibreboard) which is stiff enough for the purpose and it is not expensive. For plywood, steel and aluminum boats a complete building kit can be provided which contains all the necessary parts to build the boat. On the right side of this page you can see some examples.

What do you get when you order building kit information with us?Depending on what detailing level is requested by the client a building kit or cutting package can come with the following information:

2D/3D detailed assembly drawings with dimensions

Shopfloor drawings with part identification, position and dimensioning

Shopfloor drawings with plate expansions and/or folded parts

Forming information (for example with a roundbilge hull)

Step by step building strategy plans

Building frame information

Plate Nests, optimized for efficient material usage

Profile reports, overview of used extrusion profiles with type, lengths and end-cuts

Part reports, overview of all cut parts with information like plate thickness and weights